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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-09
Why Herr Hans Wager Wouldn't
Insure.

Good morning. Mr.. wager. I'd like
to insure you against fire." said an in
surance agent
'You don'd can conshure me.n house
against fire."
"Why OF course l can"
so dot dot house nefer got against a
fire und burn DOWN."
Well. il a fire should accidentally
break out in your house, we will restor
the loss. sce?'
"Oh. yah; | see What you dalk, aber
/ don'd can'd see some odder dings
Ouf a fire mein house proked out |
don'd got no losses. 1 got losses When
dot fire don'd broke mein house oud-
When him schtay in. You peen a hell
um Teller dot you dOn'd Something's
know like dose. When bris'ner der
jail proke oud he don'd vhas in, hain't
M You dalks like a lnnadic asylums.
I don'd mcin house conshure NIT no
'1rndc asylnms Dot was a schcstnut
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-09
Care of Breeding sows.

When the SOW has been properly fed
n coarse and cooling foods, so that
he is not in n fcverish condition, she
nay be expected to do well unless
verfcd after the pigs are born. This
s often the case, and the effects are
rery injurious. Strong food of any
lind should be avoided, as IL tends to
nflame the blood, which is always, at
uch time in more or less feverish
condition. This fact is quite too often
overlooked, and the owner thinks he
must brace up his SOW with plenty of
rood food. This is the very worst
hing that he could do, as it over-stim-
Hates the milk glands, and thus in
lanes the udders.
When the udders are infamed they
ire very sore. and the sow will often
efuse to let the pigs suck, although
The will lie down frequently. In jump
ng up she is sure to step on some Of
he pigs and either kill them outright,
,r injure them badly. The SOW should
70 in such a condition of health, that
The will not get up for hours after the
pigs are born, nor while they are being
born. This is the natural course, and
when a SOW has the run OF field and
AN get all the grass she wants pre-
rious to the time of narrowing, she will
iot leave her nest for two or three
lays. Under such circumstances she
eldom loses pig, and rarely has any
rouble with her udders. 1t is not the
lize of the udders that makes the in
ANIMATION, but the condition of the
blood; although when the udders are
arge, the flow of milk is usually in pro-
portion. and the food should be reduced
o little thin slop for few days. 1t
Ihould be gradually increased for a
week or ten days before full feed is
yiven. An excess of milk will cause
he udders to become hard. stop the
low, and dry up the secretion. When
SOW has had this kind OF trouble once.
The Is unified for a mother and should
,e fattend. american Agricaltwist
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-09
The Great Boss of the Solar
System"

The companion of Sirius is getting so
close TO its dazzling comrade that even
with the most powerful telescopes is
can only be glimpscd with difficulty.
Soon 1t will completely disappear from
view in the overpower.ng light Of
S rus. and even the great Lick telescope
will be unable TO detect it. But after
several years it will again emerge to
sight and move away from the Dog
Star until comparatively small tele-
scopes will show it. This wonderful
companion of the brightest star in the
heavens is a puzzle to astronomers.
They have calculated its orbit and
know that it makes a journey around
the great star once every forty-nine
years or Whereabouts. II is easily
enough to understand that, but the sur
prising thing is that while this singu-
lar star is probably half as heavy as
Sirius, it possesses several thousand
times less light 1t is either a perish
ing or dead sun; and in the latter
case, Of course. is simply an enormous
planet shining with the reflected light
of Sirius. But such a planet staggers
the imagination. Our sun is more than
million times as large as the earth,
yet in comparison with the companion
Of Sirius he would appear so insignid-
cant that we might be ashamed to ac-
knowledge him as the great boss Of
the solar system. Neso York Sum
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-09
FARM AND GARDEN.
How to Save the Peach blossoms.

HOW 10 ShVc tnc i'cucn ID IosSohs'
On a visit to the Catskill Mountains,
he past season, ! stopped ut II farm
louse, the owner of which like many
hher farmers in that vicinity, ownes a
aw-mll, and pays considerable atten-
ion ia fruit. On one occasion, he
ouud that lot of sawdust had some
line during the winter been accidentlv
brown around the roots of one OF his
,each trees. to the depth of foot. AS
pring came, he was astonished to find
hat, while all the rest Of his peach or
hard was starting into bloom, the tree
rround which the sawdust had been
brown showed no sign of starting.
fearing something was the matter, he
egan to dig around the roots, and, al
hough II was the first week in May, he
ound the soil frozen solid. The COW
ring of sawdust had been put on when
he ground was frozen, and, being an
EXCELLENT non-conductor, had kept it
rom thawing, thus retarding the
,rowth ten or twelve days, so that by
he time the peach tree, thus belated,
commenced blooming, all danger of
ate spring frosts, so fatal to the peach
rop, had passed. This was some fif-
cen years ago, but the owner, acting
N the suggestion thus fortunately
,iven. has ever since covered his peach
rees for six or eight feet around the
cots with about foot of sawdust, be-
ng careful, however, to do the cover
ng in February or March, when the
round was deeply frozen. He claims
hat by this method, he never failed to
ecure crop of peaches, by thus delay
ng the development of the buds until
he danger of spring frost was past.
This plan is well worth adopting in
III sections where peaches and other
ruits are injured by late frosts.
Though sawdust is perhaps the best
Material to cover with, yet, If not OBJ
ainable leaves, or litter, or any nom
conducting material may be used to
;eep the soil from thawing, thus re-
arding vegetation. One very impor-
ant point must not be lost sight of,
which is, that the covering must only
e done when the frost is deep in the
oil, and as late in the winter as the
round is likely TO be frozen deep. If
overed when the ground is slightly
rozen early in winter the object would
10 defeated, us the late covering which
put on, to keep the frost in the
round, II put on early in the winter,
would prevent the frost from entering
leep enough to retard the growth. l
lave Just been informed that, to attain
he same end, the farmers Of Sullivan
county, N. Y, have long been in the
labit of carting snow around the roots
# their peach trees, on the sides of the
ills facing north. Peter Henderson,
n american Aqricultwist.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-09
1t is said that If apples be fed to cows

the flow OF milk will be diminished.
To properly keep straw and hay in
stacks, the stacks must be constructed
as to shed water.
Making the plum orchard poultry
run will greatly diminish the number
of insects which prey upon the trees.
In northern climates gardens and
orchards should be screened from the
cold winds by good hedges. The pro-
lection thus afforded is much better
than high walls.
o. b. Hawden. of Massachusetts,,
says the best butter made upon his
farm was when he had taken one-half
Jersey and one-half Guernsey cream
a nd churned them together.
The Maine Agricultural College has
238 graduates and 103 students this
year. The Government Endowment
Fund amounts TO $l31,300 Ex-Gover-
nor Coburn having increased the fund
by 800, 600.
A correspondent of the English
Farmers Gazette asserts that five
pounds of common white beans ground
fine and fed in half-pound doses with
bran twice daily will cure the worst
case of bloody milk
1t is said that when horse strays of
he is usually found wandering in the
direction the wind is blowing, thus
turning lis back to the wind, but with
sheep the contrary is the case, as
sheep face the storm.
Try cutting clover into short lengtns,
sleeping it over night in hot water and
feeding to the hogs. 1t makes cheap
food, but one of the best, not only as
sisting them in growth, but greatly
promoting health.
Rip out your unnecessary fences and
pile up the posts and rails or boards
neatly, and protect them from the
weather until you have use for them
Every fence that is not absolutely need
ed is q costly nuisance.
Cornstalks have much less sweetness
in them before they blossom OF tassel,
rs it is usually called. Analysis shows
this, and COW giving her choice of the
two confirms the verdict of chemical
science. The stalks improve until the
ears are fully formed and begin to hard
en-.
With rapidly increasing population
there will be danger of excessive dear
ness of meat, such as prevails in the
densely populated countries of Europe,
and from this we can only be saved by
such Improvement in breeds of stock as
will produce beef at less cost.
Corn is often ruined for seed in the
shock, or in the barn after it is got in
and before husking, ii the latter be de-
layed even week. The dampness
favors the growth of minute molds and
fungi that kill the germ. Such corn,
though apparently sound, has a dull
look.
The editor of The Indiana Farmer
recently acknowledged the receipt of a
roast of beef from twenty-six months
old Hereford heifer, which was never
fed grain but fattened entirely on hay
and grass. He says he never tasted
better beef, nor saw its equal except at
fat stock shows.
A common mistake in strawberry
culture is to attempt to carry an old
bed along on the same plot of ground
for too many years without replanting.
1t is better to replant as often as every
second or third year than to try and
clean out the old bed, particularly if
one has plenty of land.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-09

Short and all points in louisiana New
and California line the North East and Southeast ELEGANT
through between 81 Louis wa
Deming also Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars between FO
nd New without change.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-09
AND OTHER PRINCIPAL CITIES

or Southeast Little Rock and
for 81 louis and ali points North Double daily line OF Pullman
onors m.
New Orleans Take the p m tram o
Austin
points Passengers booked ana from
between
ivpoo and Inc Steamship Line between New YORK. fueph
Antwerp
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-09
Facs. for Farmers

The peach seems to exhaust the soil
With remarkable prodigality.
II the manare be strauy or poor
nix bonedust or phospbates with IL
= The rc.boo apples 4 miniature for
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-09

Mix one pound of flour and three
quarters of pound of white sugar.
Rub into it half pound of butter, two
eggs well beaten, and an ounce of gin
ger ground fine. Beat all well togeth-
er, roll out the dough to the third of an
inch thick. cut out the cakes and bake
them. These are far superior to Or
binary ginger snaps.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10
as OTHERS SEE US.

a correspondent writing to the Printers
Circular, a magazine devoted to typograph-
ical interests, published by w. c. Bleloch,
at Philadelphia, has the following to say
regarding the ADVOCATE printing estab-
lishment:
In the neighboring town of Lehighton,
three miles below Mauch Chunk, high up
on the mountain side, found an old-time
Mauch Chunk printer Harry " Morthi-
mer-well known in the Valley from Scran-
ton TO Bethlehem. About n lozen years
ago he started the CARBON COUNTY ADVo-
CATE at lehighton as an independent paper
and has built up prosperous business, hav-
ing a well-appoinied job Office in connection
with his weekly journal. The latter having
attained circulation of oyer thousand
copies per week, the old Washington press
became too slow for the presswork to be
done, and so that notable event in the life
of county weekly-the introduction of its
first cylirder press-has just occurred. A
new Potter country drnm-cylinder, 33x4S,
that can print nine column folio. or a six
column quarto, has been added to the AD-
yoCATE establishment, completing its equip
ment Mortimer says his new press is a
daisy" and it looks handsome enough to
justify his encomums.
Here saw, too, the one-armed lypograph-
ic wonder-Will ". Morthimcr-who hay-
ing lost an arm in railroad accident, learn
ed to set type in his fathers office, and has
bechme so good composlor that he can
set up as much type daily as the average
printer, justlying his lines and emptying
his stick without assistance. Two other
sons-George w. aud Harry V Mortimer
assist their father in the work of the
office, and materially Tighten his labors.
The town of Lehighton is growing rap
idly, the population being now about ., GOO
It's location is high above the Lchigh Riyer
(which il oYerlooksl thus removing it from
any malarial influence. Health and hap
piness seem to go hand-in-hand, among It's
people with enterprise and PROCESS
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10
NEWSPAPER TALK.

Carbon County has reason TO feel proud
of the showing that Hon. W. NJ. Rapsher
made before the Allentown convention. Mr..
Rapsher was fortunate in having so good Il
spokesman TO present his name, Nh. Fishers
remarks being the hest that We're made in
connection with naming of candidates. The
vote given Mr. Rapsher is proof positive
that the delegates followed ont the instruc-
tions of the County meeting, ito use all
honorable means To e 'ure his nomination. T"
LdRSford Record
Scarcely day passes in which we do not
hear of some act of heroism in humble life
as brave as any which has ever gilded the
page of history. The soldier and martyr
haye an ineealiye TO deeds of self-sacriice.
but these loWly and unknown heroes and
heroines lave no prospect of enrolment
among the great and the noble So long AS
such acts OF unscliishness exist there is hope
for this old world, notwithstanding its faults
and weakness. Phua, Re, od.
THE temperance movement will have a
powerful ally in the Masonic fraternity, II
its general purpose aud tendency are clearly
indicted by the resolutions just adopted by
the Grand Lodge of Kansas and Missouri
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10

calling for the eprompt expulsion Of all liquor
dealers from the craft This, together with
the action of the Grand Lodge of Dakota
denying all saloon-keepers admission 70 any
lodge within its jurisdiction, pledges to The
cause of temperance reform In those states
the support of an order whose membership
in both number and charter makes it tre-
mendous power for law and order and So
briefly in every community.-Ph Phila Press.
FoR some weeks past the Piitsburg Ledde,
has been engaged in collecting straw
vote on the Presidency. The plan pursued
seems to haye been fair and pretty well
adapted TO obtaining an exhibit Of public
sentiment. Theresult published in Sundays
Leader shows that about 5000 votes were
collected, including the preferences of 2. .OOO
Democrats and Republicans. OF the 2,s0O
Democratic preferences 2, 552 were in favor
OF President Cleveland, 90 for Hill, and IS
for Randall On the Republican side 2 ,92l
were for Blaine, 729 for Lincoln, 5G3 fol
Sherman, 3G6 for Conklng, and the balance
scattered among about City or sixty can.
didatcs.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10
BrOadbPimS New YORK Letter.

Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.
Nothing has occurred tor years which
shows the evil tendency of a certain portion
of the Metropolitan press than Judge Pot
ter's decision i'm the case of Jacob Sharp.
We haye in this State a Supreme Court and
above that still Court of Appeals Now
let us ask ourselves why these courts were
instituted Why have we placed them in
the care of the ablest lawyers IN the State,
il not TO secure equal and exact Justice?
Jacob Sharp, though accused of a heinous
crime, stands exactly the same as any other
citizen till he is legally convicted. His at
tOrneys, believing that Judge BaTett's rul-
ings We're wrong, appealed to the Supreme
Court as they haG an undoubted right to
do, and the judge, after careful review
considers him entitled to a new trial. Sew
eral of the. papers mere haYe tried and con-
yicted Mr.. Sharp, and having finished the
job irrespective of the courts, they are as
tonished that the Sheriff has not railroaded
Jake Sharp to Sing Sing. There is too
great tendency in this city 10 try men in
the newspapers and to render verdict ir-
respective Of the jury. A notable case oc-
Cured in Broohlyn last week. A miserl-
BILE, drunken woman, bloated and dishgured
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10
Holding HIS Dead Babv.

In the ladies waiting room at the Union
Station SAT a young husband and his wife.
The man honest faced aud bronzcd by ex.
posture to the sun, held in his arms what
many doubtless looked upon rs a sleeping
babe. Athis side set young woman with
an old fashioned sun bonnet pulled over a
rather handsome but girlish face. Her darl;
eyes were wet with tears. She took but little
notice of those about her. but kept her eyes
fastened necessarily upon the still burden
that rested in the arms of her husband.
The cause of their grief coull be easily
guessed. The white cloth, upo which
lightly rested hand accustomed to tell,
covered the boodless features of dead
Guild. A sadder spectacle of mute sorrow
has rarely been witnessed. The baby died
in its mothers arms on board n Union
Pacific train just before reaching this city,
The father covered the dead face with q
cloth. and held the body until an undertakes
arrived TO take charge of it, Exchange.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10

The following paragraph from the EUen-
ing San, which we take the liberty TO re-
produce for our readers, expressing the
pronounced views of Henry George on the
anti-poyerty scheme, certainly makes that
particular scheme appear more improbable
than ever:
''In his speech at the Ant-Poyerty So
cisty meeting Sunday night in New York
city, Mr.. Henry George said, doubtless with
sincere enthusiasm, We are going to abol-
ish poverty not only in the United States,
but in the world OF coure it would do no
good to abolish poverty in the United
States and let it continue TO exist in France
and England and Italy and the rest of the
world. Unless a prohibitiye tariff could be
enforced against European, Asiatic, Afri-
can, Australian and South American poy-
erty, il would rush wildly to this favored
was no poverty TO compete with here. The
Anti-Poverty Society would have to begin
all over again, which would be very dis
couraging. An unparalleled miss ionary
activity will haye to be displayed by Mr..
Georges society in all parts of the world
and considering how big that world is and
how small in comparison is the devoted
band of anti-pauperists, it is impossible not
to admire their courage and confidence.
They have a mighty big contract on their
hands, but they seem not to mind it and
eonsinue to bechipper under that enormous
BURDEN"
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10

The ADVOCATE remarked editorially last
week that the knights of Labor, of this
borough, had put in nomination. last spring,
"a Knight of Labor ticket" We are led
to understand that the Assembly here raises
exceptions to our remarks fIom the fact
that no ticket was formulated under theiI
knowledge, nor in the Assembly rooms.
This may be true, still it does not remove
the fact that a ticket was nominated at the
Exchange Hotel reading room and by some
of the nominees pronounced Knight OF
Labor ticket, and we believe many voted
the ticket with that knowledge. If it was
not Knight of Labor ticket, it was bare
faced deception upon Knight of Labor Yot-
ers in this borough. We would not feel at
liberty to make the assertion that the AS
sembly proper had taken hand in the
nominations, as that body could gain moth
ing by it, but it was the impression and is
so still, that the Knights in this place form
ulated the ticket, and under that caption
made every effort possible to elect it.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10

To the Democrat: Yes, Hon. w. NJ. Rap
sher, of Mauch Chunk, received sixty votes
for Judge of the Supreme Court, at the
Allentown Convention last week; standing
fourth on the first ballot with Thompson,
Arnold and Mclean leading. This is a fit
ting compliment to Mr.. Rapsher, who to-
day stands, undeniably, as the foremost
Democratic citizen in Carbon county. TAX
ing this into consideration with the fact
that few years ago Mr.. Rauch, of the
Democrat, received about THREE votes for
the nomination of Assemblyman in the
Democratic County Convention, it places
Rauch beyond doubt in the category OF
miserably small-fry politicians who stoop tc
the will of political shysters and demagogues
of which Carbon county has her share.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10

'THERE is too much disposition to jump
on Editor Ranch, of the Mrnch Chunk
Democrat, every time he opens his mouth
or any subject. - -Weatherly
Herald
language of condemnation which so fluent
ly flowed from the pen or pencil of brother
Rinker not many weeks ago. The above
paragraph naturally leads progressive read
ers to infer that Rinker has already com
menced fishing for fayors probably for the
Prothonotaryship next fall?
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10

THE Democrats of Carbon county in con
vention assembled at Mauch Chunk on
Monday put in nomination a ticket against
which no true Democrat can find the least
possible fault. George Dolon, Of Packer
ton, the nominee for county treasurer. rep
resents the sterling Democracy as do all the
other candidates who possess natural and
essential qualifc ations which makes the
ticket substantial in every particular.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10

OF course, IL is very early in the political
season to ask for votes, still every voter in
the borough of Lehighton should remem-
ber that the genial and obliging Paul Wag-
ner, of North street, is one of the Demo-
cratic nominees for Auditor and the people
want to give the genuine Lehighton send
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10

II our Republican friends put in nomin-
alton ticket next Monday that embraces
the strength and force of the Democratic
ticket we may expect very heated cam
paign surrounded by the usual uncertain
-
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10

RoouEsrER, N. Y, May -. 1884.

NoiIISFER, ~. y, May II, 1851
1t having been for time urged argument against the
of matt lqno that they unfit for by of adj
alterations, beg state that the Lager Beer manufactured
10y us is Pure, icalthul Unadutcratcd article.
For the Invalid aud the Nursing Mother well for those
who simply it beverage is lghtand nomhing slim
umt Lager Beer has accomplished much for the OF
pemnce in weaving may from the of the stronger drinks
and thousands all the land ceernly testify wonderful
effects in building up the Enloebled Constitution.
An ana of our Beer has been made by Professor baltimore
the Rochester University gentleman whose sufficient
guarantee of the accuracy any statement he may make, We
also produce the affidavit of Mr. Frederick Hodecke head
brewer which must certainly all doubts that might
exist in the mind of any person
Furthermore, will pay $1,000 any proving that
statements and claims entirely true
Very Respectfully,
The Rochester Brewing Co.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10

THE political bee buzzing in the Uranium
of certain particular Carbon county
Democrat is just little lonesome since 1--WE
didn't get our man nominated Monday"
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10

THE result of the election in Carbon
county this fall will not be significant of the
result next year.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10

THEIR is tide in the affairs of man
which taken at the convention leads not in
the way of the political heelers.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10

MEN drop out Of politics one year and
then drop in again.